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Bill Hughes

Partner

San Francisco

Silicon Valley

Bill Hughes leads Orrick’s Capital Markets practice. He focuses on securities offerings, counseling public and late-stage private companies and securities law compliance.

Bill counsels public and late-stage private companies on general corporate and transactional matters, including advising on initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, direct listings, investment grade debt offerings and convertible debt offerings. He also regularly advises companies on disclosure and reporting obligations under U.S. federal securities laws, corporate governance issues and stock exchange listing obligations.

Additionally, Bill advises founders and companies in connection with public listings through SPAC merger. Among other engagements, Bill represented Getaround, Inc., a connected carsharing marketplace, Clover Health Investments, Corp., a next-generation Medicare Advantage insurer, and the founders of DraftKings Inc., a digital sports entertainment and gaming company, in the respective de-SPAC transactions of those entities.

Chambers USA has ranked Bill for his expertise in Capital Markets Debt & Equity and noted that "He's a great lawyer, really technically sound."

  • Bill has been involved in dozens of offering processes, including advising:

    • Twist Bioscience in its 287.5 million, 323.7 million, $140.5 million and $108.1 million follow-on offerings
    • Luminar Technologies in its $625 million convertible notes offering
    • Weave Communications in its $120 million initial public offering
    • Underwriters led by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and BofA Securities in the $1.1 billion initial public offering of Freshworks
    • HCW Biologics in its $56.0 million initial public offering
    • Asana in its direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange and related $450 million senior mandatory convertible promissory note financing
    • Initial purchasers in the $287.5 million convertible note offering of PagerDuty
    • Beyond Meat in its $240.6 million initial public offering and $520 million follow-on offering
    • Underwriters led by Barclays, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets in $750 million senior note offering of Ally Financial
    • Underwriters led by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets and Allen & Company in the $250 million initial public offering of PagerDuty
    • Sonos in its $95.8 million initial public offering
    • Underwriters led by RBC Capital Markets, J.P. Morgan and Citigroup in the $329 million follow-on public offering of GDS Holdings
    • Alteryx in its $126 million initial public offering and $170 million follow-on offering
    • Underwriters led by Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Citi, RBC Capital Markets and China Renaissance in the $193 million initial public offering of GDS Holdings
    • Symantec in its $1.1 billion senior unsecured note offering
    • Multinational Digital Communications Technology Conglomerate in its $6.25 billion senior notes offering
    • Multinational Digital Communications Technology Conglomerate in its $7 billion senior notes offering
    • Adesto Technologies in its $25 million initial public offering, and $17.5 million and $40.2 million follow-on offerings
    • Multinational Digital Communications Technology Conglomerate in its $5 billion senior notes offering
    • Underwriters led by J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup in the $83 million follow-on public offering of TubeMogul
    • Underwriters led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and RBC Capital Markets in the $50 million initial public offering of TubeMogul
    • Underwriters led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in the $100 million initial public offering of MobileIron
    • Multinational Digital Communications Technology Conglomerate Systems in its $8 billion senior notes offering
    • Acucela in its $162 million initial public offering
    • Underwriters led by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and BofA Merrill Lynch in the $86 million initial public offering of Barracuda Networks
    • Infoblox in its $120 million initial public offering and $115 million follow-on offering
    • Symantec in its $1 billion senior notes offering
    • Green Dot in its $189 million initial public offering and $286 million follow-on offering
    • Symantec in its $1.1 billion senior notes offering
    • ShoreTel in its $86 million initial public offering
    • Intuit in its $1.1 billion senior notes offering
    • Cepheid in its $99 million follow-on offering
    • Diamond Foods in its $117 million initial public offering and related co-op conversion

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